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Greymouth Star
World
Saturday, July 26, 2014 - 3
Bamako (Mali)
France says there were no sur vivors
from the Air Algerie flight that
crashed in Mali, as it emerged that
several families had been wiped out in
the tragedy.
Such was the apparent violence of
the crash — increasingly blamed on
bad weather — that debris shown
in the first available footage of the
impact site was barely recognisable as
part of an aircraft.
There were conflicting reports of
whether there were 118 or 116 people
aboard the flight.
“Sadly, there are no sur vivors,”
President Francois Hollande said
on television, a day after the plane,
carrying 54 French nationals, went
down shortly after take-off.
The McDonnell Douglas 83 jet,
operated by Spanish charter firm
Swiftair on behalf of Air Algerie,
was also carrying passengers and
crew from Burkina Faso, Lebanon,
Algeria, Spain, Canada, Germany and
Luxembourg.
It was unclear exactly how many
people were on board, as Swiftair put
the number at 116 while the French
presidency said 118 passengers and
crew were on the plane.
The first footage of the crash site in
Mali’s hard-to-reach Gossi region,
filmed by soldiers from nearby
Burkina Faso, showed a stark, sandy-
looking terrain littered with debris,
the ground blackened in some areas.
The jet was on its way to Algiers
when it crashed amid reports of heavy
storms in the area, shortly after the
pilots radioed in they were diverting
course due to difficult weather
conditions.
French Interior Minister Bernard
Cazeneuve said weather conditions
appeared to be the most likely cause of
the accident — the worst air tragedy
for French nationals since the crash
of the Air France A330 from Rio de
Janeiro to Paris in June 2009.
In one particularly tragic case, 10
members of the same French family
were on board the plane, the mayors of
the towns where some of them lived
said.
—
AFP
French family of 10 wiped out in Air Algerie crash
PICTURE: Reuters
From the mouths of royal babes
A casket containing the first teeth of Queen Victoria’s children dated from about 1860 is displayed at Buckingham Palace — the official residence of Britain’s
Queen Elizabeth — in central London.
Israel agrees
to ceasefire
Wyoming
Scientists will begin excavation
early next week of an ancient
Wyoming sinkhole containing
a rare bounty of fossil remains
of prehistoric animals, such as
mammoths and dire wolves,
preser ved in unusually good
condition, researchers said.
The two-week dig, set to begin
next Monday under the direction
of a Des Moines University
paleontologist Julie Meachen,
marks the first exploration of
Natural Trap Cave in north-central
Wyoming since its initial discovery
in the 1970s.
At that time, scientists found
that the 25m-deep cavern formed
a natural repository for a rich fossil
record that may date back as far
as 100,000 years, but a full-scale
expedition into the sinkhole has
not previously been attempted.
Conditions in the underground
chasm are cold and damp, offering
a degree of preser vation for fossils
generally associated only with
those found frozen in ice in Siberia
and the Arctic, Meachen said.
“They fell into a refrigerator,”
she said of animals such as camels,
American lions, cheetahs, woolly
mammoths and short-faced bears.
Meachen will lead a team of
international scientists as they
rappel from the outer rim of the
cave’s opening.
—
Reuters
Experts abseil into giant fossil freezer
Madrid
A nightclub on the Spanish
holiday island of Majorca where
a young woman performed oral
sex on several men reportedly in
exchange for free drinks has been
ordered shut for a year by local
authorities.
The Playhouse’s punishment
was imposed after a police probe
conc luded that “a collective fellatio”
—
caught on camera and spread
around on on-line social networks
—
took place at the nightclub, it
added.
Calvia mayor Manuel Onieva
ordered a full investigation after a
video posted on You Tube showing
a blonde woman, wearing red shorts
and a white tank top, performing
oral sex on several men on the
dance floor of a Magaluf nightclub
went viral and sparked headlines
around the world.
The crowd can be heard cheering
in the video, which lasts over two
minutes as music plays.
—
AFP
Spanish ‘sex’ club closed after video goes viral
Colorado
Back in 2012, the Sun erupted with
a powerful solar storm that just missed
the Earth but was big enough to “knock
modern civilisation back to the 18th
century,” Nasa said yesterday.
The extreme space weather that tore
through Earth’s orbit on July 23, 2012,
was the most powerful in 150 years,
according to a statement posted on the
United States space agency website this
week.
However, few people had any idea
what was going on.
“ If the eruption had occurred only one
week earlier, Earth would have been in
the line of fire,” Daniel Baker, professor
of atmospheric and space physics at the
University of Colorado, said.
Scientists have analysed the treasure
trove of data it collected and concluded
that it would have been comparable to
the largest known space storm in 1859,
known as the Carrington event.
It also would have been twice as bad
as the 1989 solar storm that knocked
out power across Quebec, scientists
said.
The National Academy of Sciences has
said the economic impact of a storm like
the one in 1859 could cost the modern
economy more than $US2 trillion and
cause damage that might take years to
repair.
Experts say solar storms can cause
widespread power blackouts, disabling
everything from radio to GPS
communications to water supplies —
most of which rely on electric pumps.
—
AFP
Washington
Wikipedia has blocked editing rights
from some computers at the United
States House of Representatives in
response to “disruptive” revisions of the
on-line encyclopedia.
A 10-day ban imposed on Thursday
blocked any editing from an IP address
at the US Capitol, which is shared
among a number of computers.
“ You have been blocked from editing
for a period of 10 days for persistent
disruptive editing,” a Wikipedia posting
said yesterday.
The move came after unusual revisions
were pointed out by Twitter account @
congressedits, which describes itself as “a
bot that tweets anonymous Wikipedia
edits that are made from IP addresses in
the US Congress”.
The account was created by a software
developer named Ed Summers.
Some of the changes, which were later
undone, said that John F Kennedy’s
assassin Lee Har vey Oswald acted “on
behalf of Fidel Castro” and that the
news blog Mediaite was “sexist ” and
“transphobic”.
—
AFP
Wikipedia blocks strange US Capitol edits
Earth survived near miss from 2012 solar storm
Jerusalem
Israel has announced a unilateral
12-hour ceasefire in Gaza starting
on Saturday morning, a United
States official said.
“Israel has agreed to a 12-hour
ceasefire from 7am Saturday,”
the US official travelling with
Secretary of State John Kerry, who
was leaving Cairo without securing
a longer ceasefire deal between
Israel and Palestinian movement
Hamas, said.
It was unclear whether the
ceasefire was due to start at 7am
Israeli time or British time.
Israeli fire on Gaza killed a
pregnant woman and a senior
Islamic Jihad figure yesterday, as
the Palestinian death toll from
18 days of violence exceeded 850,
emergency ser vices said.
Surgeons saved the life of the
23-year-old woman’s unborn child
after the air strike hit a house in
the central Gaza town
of Deir al-Balah,
emergency ser vices
spokesman Ashraf
al-Qudra said.
Another air raid
killed a senior
spokesman for Islamic
Jihad, the second
largest militant group
in Gaza after Hamas,
which dominates the
territory.
Salah Hasanein’s
sons, 12 and 15, were
also killed in the
strike in the southern
city of Rafah, Q udra
said.
The strikes took the Palestinian
death toll in Gaza since Israel
launched its offensive on July 8 to
865.
Rockets and mortar rounds
fired into Israel have killed three
civilians — two Israelis and a
Thai farm worker — and fighting
in and around Gaza has killed 35
Israeli soldiers.
It is the bloodiest conflict around
the blockaded Palestinian territory
since 2008-09.
—
AP
PICTURE: Reuters
John Kerry tries to negotiate a ceasefire from
his hotel in Egypt.
GREYMATTER
by Dave Green 0530 Difficulty Level
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ANSWERS: 1 The Dixie Chicks, 2 Montgomery ‘Scotty’ Scott, 3 Paul Holmes,
4 Gladiator, 5 Damocles, 6 Tropical hardwood tree, 7 Mi-Sex, 8 Nelson
Mandela, 9, Florence Griffith Joyner, 10 A lie detector.
1. Many American radio stations stopped playing which group after they
made anti-George W Bush comments?
2. Which role in Star Trek was played by Canadian-Irish actor James
Doohan?
3. Who called United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan a “cheeky
darkie”?
4. During the making of which epic film did the actor Oliver Reed die?
5. Who sat at a banquet beneath a sharp sword suspended by a single hair?
6. Is a padauk a tropical hardwood tree, an enclosure for animals in South
Africa or a diving seabird?
7. Which New Zealand band had a number-one hit in Australia in 1979 with
“Computer Games”?
8. Whose autobiography is called Long Walk to Freedom?
9. Which American athlete was known as “FloJo”?
10. What is a polygraph better known as?
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